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A 90 day reflection of the new Country Director of the World Bank I take this opportunity to thank all the Sri Lankans that opened their minds and hearts to help me understand the country context and ... Read more

President of Hungary János Áder (left), President of Mauritius Ameenah Gurib-Fakim (middle) and Guangzhe CHEN, Senior Director for World Bank Water Global Practice (left) hosting a press con ... Read more

I was recently awarded the honorary title of “Manbassador” by the Professional Women’s Network (PWN) . PWN is the leading Romanian organization promoting gender equality in the workplace. In Rom ... Read more

Nick Carraway, the narrator in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, remembers his father saying, “Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone … just remember that all the people in this world haven't ... Read more

What’s the latest research in international trade and integration? Researchers from the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO recently gathered for a one-day workshop to present their latest research on the ... Read more

This is the tenth in our job market paper series this year. In developing countries, the high costs of credit along with varied impediments to saving, make it challenging for people to raise large sum ... Read more

In a series of articles titled “Towers of Secrecy,” the New York Times in 2015 revealed the opaque way in which much high-value U.S. real estate is owned by famous and politically connected persons fr ... Read more

Samantha Amerasinghe, a guest blogger, is an economist for the Thematic Research team at Standard Chartered. Giving women access to the skills and qualifications in areas where jobs will be crea ... Read more

People, Spaces, Deliberation bloggers present exceptional campaign art from all over the world. These examples are meant to inspire. In order to raise public awareness about violence against women and ... Read more

This is the ninth in our series of job market posts this year. Teachers’ attendance can be improved if they are monitored by head-teachers using mobile technology, but only if the associated rep ... Read more

People who look at the Doing Business report’s Trading Across Borders indicator and the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) often wonder why one country can perform well on one of the rankings but not s ... Read more

Slideshow: Reimagining a park, a river, and other public spaces in Seoul (Photos by Judy Zheng Jia / World Bank) [[tweetable]]"If you lose the human scale, the city becomes an ugly place," said ... Read more

No one in the municipal authority of Bhubaneswar, the capital of the Indian state of Odisha, was in the dark about its street lighting problem – though as years went by and the issue worsened, more an ... Read more

Photo credit: Dmitry Karyshev Armenia was faced with a slowing economy, sinking remittances, and inefficient tax administration. At the same time, ordinary taxpayers had to navigate arduous processes ... Read more

Over a billion people— about 15% of the world’s population—have disabilities. Almost 80% of them live in the developing world, which is undergoing rapid urbanization. While urbanization brings ... Read more

Against the backdrop of low oil and gas prices and fiscal consolidation, economic diversification and private sector development is a top policy priority for the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Coun ... Read more

Some countries are blessed with natural resources, others are cursed. It’s been said that all the blessed ones are alike, they put the resources to good use, improving the people’s welfare in a sustai ... Read more

In less than a generation the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region has made great progress in expanding the basic public services that are necessary for children to succeed later in life. The ... Read more

Computer Science Education Week has already kicked off (December 5 - 11, 2016) and it is a pretty big deal. One hour of code for everyone (no experience needed) is a part of that. The focus is on ... Read more

Agriculture is both a victim and a cause of water scarcity. Water of appropriate quality and quantity is essential for the production of crops, livestock, and fisheries, as well as for the processing ... Read more

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